The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox (2025) s01e04 Episode Script
All You Need Is Love
1
[dramatic music playing]
Is that supposed to
be the point of entry?
Is Spiderman a suspect?
Valuable items left behind.
No forced entry at the door.
This break-in has been staged.
What's that?
A vibrator.
Are these cell phones yours?
These are Meredith's.
One's her British phone
and the second is for local calls.
The British girls don't like Amanda
at all.
I hope she didn't suffer.
Of course she suffered.
They slit her throat.
The hair found on Meredith's floor
belongs to a black man.
Stop lying!!
It it was Patrick!
- [banging on door]
- [shouting in Italian]
So, then what?
You You said You said Patrick?
Yes, and they made me, like,
imagine I was seeing him.
I just interviewed four witnesses
swearing to his alibi.
[lawyer] You are going to have
to stay in Capanne.
Wait what? What, for how long?
- Up to a year.
- A year?
[dramatic music playing]
Actually, there was an African guy
who played basketball with us.
What's his name?
He goes by
"The Baron."
The bloody fingerprints in Meredith's
room don't match Knox
Sollecito or Lumumba.
They belong to someone else.
[cutting and scraping sounds]
[kitchen items rattling]
[tense music playing]
[knives clattering]
[echoing blade slicing]
[chair rolling]
[metal clinging]
[tense music continues playing]
[metal cash box clanging]
[plastic blinds rattling]
Why is the door open?
Is anyone in there?
[children chattering in distance]
Who are you?
Sorry, yeah. Just needed
somewhere to crash.
I feel safe at schools.
Stop. Stop. Stop.
- I was just gonna head out.
- No.
- I'm going to have to call the police.
- No, don't.
Mama, mama!
[gasping breaths]
[children laughing and squealing
in distance]
[line ringing]
[officer] [on phone] Polizia.
There's been a break-in at the nursery.
Please come quickly!
[officer on phone speaking Italian]
My son is here with me.
[officer on phone speaking Italian]
Yes, he has a knife.
[officer on phone
continues speaking Italian]
[tense music playing]
[Amanda Knox] Story is a powerful thing.
[reporters chattering]
The shape of a story makes sense to us.
The path from the familiar
to the unexpected.
- [reporters shouting]
- [reporter] Mr. Knox! Mr. Knox!
[Amanda] The twists we know are coming,
even if we can't predict them.
The end, good or bad,
justified by all that came before.
Mr. Knox, where exactly
did your daughter learn to kill?
Did you know Amanda
was seen thong shopping
as Meredith's body was going cold?
[Amanda] The problem is that reality,
as small, predictable,
and painful as it can be,
often doesn't hold the same allure.
I am here to support
my daughter Amanda
- [cameras clicking]
- who is innocent.
Just like Meredith Kercher's family,
all I want is for justice to be done
and to bring Amanda back home
where she belongs.
Thank you very much.
[distant reporters shouting]
[Edda Mellas] He's just encouraging them.
[scoffs] What'd he do?
Made eye contact, for one.
You coming?
[knocking at door]
Welcome to Italy.
Yeah. I guess so.
- This is it, huh?
- [Chris Mellas] Hey, Curt.
- Yeah.
- [Curt Knox] How you doing, Chris?
Hm. Thought your handshake
would be firmer.
- Chris.
- [chuckles] I'm just messin' with ya.
[Edda clears throat]
All these years, I think
this is our first actual handshake.
Is there a place where I can put
- my evening bags?
- Yeah. Yeah.
- Anywhere, uh
- [Curt] Yeah?
[Edda] Chris is headed home
tomorrow for work, so
Could use a cocktail right now.
Uh, beer in the fridge.
- Yeah, he won't.
- Wine on the rack.
- [Curt] I, uh
- If it doesn't come from a blender
[Curt] I only do "girly drinks."
According to my daughters, that is.
- [bag unzipping]
- You know, I'd rather you not do that,
talk to those assholes out there.
I think that we actually
have to, don't we?
I mean, I don't know if you've noticed,
but they're saying
- some pretty bad stuff about our kid.
- I I noticed.
- I talked to a PR firm.
- PR firm?
- What for?
- Yep, and they said the whole thing
Why do we need that? She's got lawyers.
We have to tell tell the world
that she is not some kind of monster.
That she's got a family that loves her
and is gonna be here for her.
Yeah, we are here for her.
We have been here for her.
We have to be her voice to the outside.
If that doesn't happen,
then all they're gonna hear
is those assholes out there.
Yeah, well, they are not
reasonable people.
Then, we need to use them to reach
- the reasonable people!
- Oh, well, I'm sorry if I've been too busy
caring for my traumatized daughter
to give a shit.
[soft tense music playing]
So, how is she?
You know Amanda.
Sunny, despite everything.
Hella bored, is what she is.
- Tore through every book I brought her.
- Well, I'm glad she has books,
but does she have everything she needs?
Does she have food?
- Does she have clothes?
- [Chris] Why?
You thinkin' of smuggling in
some Hamburger Helper?
Holy crap. Guys, look, look.
[reporter] [on TV]
a new assailant in the murder
of British student Meredith Kercher.
And while details are still emerging,
police say that evidence
places Rudy Guede
firmly at the scene of the crime.
- The new evidence
- Th-this is good, right?
Th this is good.
This is this is good for Amanda.
[reporter] believed to have fled Italy
shortly after Kercher's death
on November 1st.
- [buzzer blaring]
- [lock clicking]
[PA announcement in Italian]
- There she is. Ask her, ask her.
- I will. Calm down.
Amanda, do you know a man
named Rudy Guede?
Mm, Ru no.
Why? Who is that?
Black, tall, likely a drug dealer.
Nickname, "The Baron."
Uh
No, I don't. W-Why? What's going on?
[Luciano chuckles]
His prints and DNA
are all over the murder scene.
They found the killer?
Oh, my God!
Wait, am I am I free?
- Well, he's not in custody yet, so
- Not yet.
They'll find him. They'll get him.
This is wonderful, Amanda.
It's fantastic, uh [speaking Italian]
- News. News.
- News. It's fantastic news.
- Eh?
- It's fantastic news.
The police just need to find him.
[phone ringing]
Hey Rudy. Baron
You there?
Yeah.
Where are you?
I left Italy.
Not safe for me there.
Yeah man, I'm worried about you.
How can I help? Do you need money?
Yeah.
I'm
- Yeah, that would help.
- Of course.
We're friends, whatever I can do.
Where do I send it?
[train clattering]
It's not true, what they're saying.
Do you know what happened?
The funny thing is that
I tried to help her.
It happened while I was in the
bathroom having a shit.
So you were there?
Who was with you? Was it Patrick?
No, it wasn't Patrick.
I tried to intervene. I did all I could.
But
I couldn't stop it.
He's lying.
Let me help you fix it.
I'll Western Union you cash.
Just tell me where to send it.
[dramatic tense music playing]
I'm in Germany. Düsseldorf.
And listen
They got it all wrong.
Amanda wasn't there.
She doesn't have anything to do with it.
[dramatic music intensifying]
He claims Knox wasn't there.
I heard.
Ginevra, what do we have?
Guede's DNA was found on the
pillowcase, toilet paper, glass
on the sweater, bra
- and inside the body of Meredith.
- Basically, we're fucked.
I don't see how this changes a thing.
We always knew there were
multiple assailants.
Sollecito, Lumumba, Knox. Now, Guede.
Why would he say the
others weren't there?
He's protecting them.
Like Lumumba's friends were
with his sham alibi.
Valentina, Lumumba's DNA is
nowhere near the scene.
Ginevra, did she or did she not name
Patrick Lumumba to your face?
- She did.
- Okay.
The downstairs boys
talked of this "Baron"
in their depositions and
you didn't find him
Because he fled the country!
Which puts egg on our face!
Enough! Girls, please.
Let's go over what we have.
Guede's DNA.
Knox's confession. And don't
fucking call me a girl ever again.
We know the break-in was staged.
Knox's DNA is on the knife
Sollecito's knife.
Knox's statement, though.
Why would she name Patrick Lumumba?
Why did she fabricate this story?
Maybe he wasn't there.
I want this Baron back in Italy, now.
[train station PA
announcement in Italian]
[tense music playing]
[people chattering in Italian]
[Curt] [on phone]
It seems like this guy is on the run.
So, we gotta hope it's just
a matter of time till they nab him.
[Edda] [on phone] Then we're on
the first friggin' flight outta here.
God, I have this weird feeling
like maybe maybe I do know him.
[Edda] The murderer?
[tense music continues playing]
[indistinct radio chatter]
[Amanda] I I know,
just the more I look at his face,
he might have played basketball
with the guys downstairs?
I I never knew his name, but
[Edda] God, I hate thinking
what could've happened to you.
I hate all this shit.
[Curt] Well, soon they're gonna
catch him, and this will all be over.
[Amanda] I love you guys.
[tense music continues playing]
- [child wailing]
- Do the elephant with me.
[imitating elephant noises]
[buzzer blaring]
[Amanda trumpeting]
[children chattering]
[Amanda]
Children born to my fellow prisoners
serving time with their moms
until they were weaned.
Who's this?
This is Mena.
Ciao!
- [Gregora speaking indistinctly]
- Bella Mena!
[Amanda narrating]
Their innocence was so obvious.
Soon, mine would be, too.
Soon, I would be free.
- [door opens]
- [VC Banti] Kuh-nox!
[VC Banti speaking Italian]
Ciao, Mena.
[Gregora speaking Italian]
- [cameras clicking]
- [reporters shouting]
- [reporter 1] Patrick!
- [shouting continues]
[reporter 2] Patrick, Patrick, Patrick!
Is Amanda being released?
[reporter 3] Is Patrick gonna make
a statement now?
A grave error has been made.
And today it will be rectified.
My client, Patrick Lumumba
is categorically innocent of
the crimes he was accused of.
- No shit. I cannot
- Just just shush.
My hope is that he and his family
be welcomed back into the community
with the grace they deserve.
- As we speak
- Finally! Now me.
the real perpetrators of this horrific
crime are on their way toward justice.
Patrick.
[cameras clicking]
I want to thank my
friends, and my family.
Most especially my wife and son, who
stood by my side throughout this ordeal.
They never doubted that the man
they knew is the man I am.
[camera clicking]
[camera clicking]
My only hope is that justice will
be done, in poor Meredith's name.
- [reporters shouting]
- [cameras clicking]
And lastly, I want to thank
those who saw the truth
and acted in good conscience
to ensure my release.
[reporter] [on TV] If Patrick is innocent,
what happens next for this investigation?
[Edda exhales sharply]
- Niente.
- Nothing as far as I know.
What I do know is
[Edda] No.
Patrick was arrested as a result
of Amanda Knox's willful deceit.
[Raffaele scoffs]
With Rudy Guede now in custody,
a mistake has been corrected.
- No, no, no.
- And I have every confidence the
- real murderers of Meredith Kercher
- Fuck.
will be punished to the fullest
extent of the law.
All of them.
[suspenseful music playing]
[distorted music playing]
- [rock music continues playing]
- [people chattering]
Hey Baron!
Pour me one too, yeah?
I got you.
Yo, did you just leave a shit in here?
C'mon, man
My fault, my fault.
That rich family didn't
teach you fuck all, huh?
They would have if they
didn't kick me out.
- [laughing]
- [knocking at door]
- [chuckling] Hello.
- Ciao!
- [all] Ciao!
- Can we come in?
Were we loud? Sorry.
No, no. No, we, uh
[snapping fingers] smelled you were home.
[group] Ahh.
[laughing] Um
We were thinking maybe you had extra?
- Sì.
- [laughing]
Laura had a hard day
[Giacomo and Meredith speaking Italian]
Who is that?
Her name is Amanda.
She lives upstairs.
Her Italian is not good though
or she would know
I'm the most hilarious.
[group laughing]
Ciao.
[loud rock music continues
playing on stereo]
Ciao.
[people chattering and laughing]
- Ciao.
- [clicks tongue] Ciao.
You were born in December.
All beautiful girls are born in December.
Sorry
I don't no capito.
[Meredith Kercher] I will.
She'll be very grateful.
- [Amanda chuckles]
- [item clatters]
- Ohh. Sorry.
- You got it?
- Thank you.
- Cool.
- Good night. See ya.
- [group] Ciao.
Ciao, ciao, grazie!
Grazie, grazie!
[rock music playing on stereo]
[sighs]
They live upstairs?
[group speaking Italian]
- Like right upstairs?
- Yes, right upstairs.
Guys, I'm going to bring them back.
[party goer] Boo!
Sit down, sit down.
- Giacomo has tapped the Brit already.
- Good boy, Giacomo.
- I can do the other one then.
- You couldn't get it up anyway.
Fuck off.
- "Were you born on a Sunday?"
- I'm going hit you with this ball.
[laughter]
["1234" by Feist playing]
Old teenage hopes
are right at your door ♪
Left you with nothing ♪
But they want some more ♪
Oh, oh-oh, you're changing your heart ♪
[mimicking rooster crowing]
[excited chattering]
See, Filo? The plan is working.
What plan?
She said that if we take you two in,
we'll never pay for weed again.
- [smacking leg]
- [Amanda] Oh!
I didn't get all of that,
but I feel like we're being used?
We do it for the wine and the pasta.
- Filo. Filo!
- Wine and the pasta.
- [chanting] Wine and the pasta.
- [overlapping chatter]
[laughter]
One, two, three, four ♪
[Amanda] Mm!
Amanda, it's not ready!
[Amanda laughing]
Bony American.
[group chattering in Italian]
Please give me food.
So hungry.
[group continues chattering in Italian]
[music continues playing faintly]
[distant dog barking]
- [tense music playing]
- [shutters banging]
[shutters creaking and banging]
[tense music continues]
[shutter banging]
[Amanda] Though the prosecution cast me,
Raffaele, and Rudy as co-conspirators
in Meredith's murder,
Rudy admitted to only partial guilt,
opted for a speedy trial,
was tried before we were, and separately.
You are judged guilty
of murder aggravated
by sexual assault of
Meredith Susanna Kercher.
[Amanda] With his fast-track trial,
he got a lighter sentence
and was removed from the public eye.
No audience to review him,
no media to ravage him,
and the prosecution could then
focus on their real targets:
me and Raffaele.
Awaiting a trial where Rudy Guede
would not be so much as cross-examined,
Raffaele and I rotted in jail
for almost a year
while our defense teams
did what they could to prepare.
[Curt] "Whore," "harlot," "slut."
Particularly colorful work
from this fuck-face Mark Fontana.
I understand it's hard to see this,
but it's it's nothing, it's noise.
These are Uh, no, it's not nothing.
It's not noise.
These are names that they're calling
our daughter, and that's just the names.
We haven't even gotten
to the theories yet.
- Listen to this
- Mr. Knox, Mrs. Mellas
"Mignini says Kercher was killed
in a sect-like ritual
"when the three suspects
plotted a drug-fueled orgy
- "inspired by Halloween
- [Edda sighs]
Marilyn Manson, and Japanese comics."
- Are you fucking kidding me?
- It's fantasy. It is
Why are we even here?! Huh?!
I'm Rudy Guede's DNA
- was all over that poor girl.
- His blood.
- His fingerprints.
- It was all over the goddamn room!
He's got a history of burglary, drug use,
aggression towards women.
Why are they still
going after our daughter?
Well, because she named herself
- and and Patrick.
- Under duress.
- She retracted an hour later.
- [overlapping shouting]
You need to tell them what we're doing.
Luciano, I'm trying.
Look, the theories are far-fetched.
The story is fantastical,
and the press have been taking them
from the prosecution and feeding them
to the public,
which is why we need to
We are inviting them in.
To where?
- To court?
- [Carlo Dalla Vedova] Yes.
What's the matter?
[Edda] Are you kidding me?
Why would you do that?
They're upset the media will be
present at trial.
I understand your concern,
but it's been it's been over a year.
Tell them that it will be better
for them to see her in a safe space.
It's been over a year,
one year, one year,
and the press have yet to interact
with Amanda face-to-face.
Let them see that innocent face.
The police entrapped her
in that interrogation
and they intentionally did not record it
because they knew it would look
very bad for them.
We want to try this in open court
so that can't happen again.
We will fight with facts.
[Luciano Ghirga] Ah.
And it's a fight we can win.
But the public must bear witness.
[car turning off]
You took my spot.
So?
[car door closes]
What do you think? Year in prison,
bet you 5 Euros Foxy Knoxy got fat.
[both chuckle]
If she got fat we could
probably all go home.
- [church bell tolling]
- [people chattering]
[tense music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
[lock clicking]
[guard speaking Italian]
[tense music continues playing]
[engine idling]
[doors thudding shut]
[guards speaking Italian]
- [engine rumbling]
- [siren wailing]
[van rattling]
[tense music continues playing]
- [crowd clamoring]
- [cameras clicking]
[clamoring continues]
[onlooker shrieks]
[overlapping shouting]
- [cameras continue clicking]
- [crowd clamoring]
- Amanda! Amanda, we're here!
- Amanda!
[overlapping shouting continues]
- [Deanna Knox] We're here!
- [Amanda] No wait! No wait!
- Wait, please. Please.
- [Edda] We love you! We love you!
- [tense music continues]
- [clamoring continues]
- [cameras clicking]
- [reporters shouting]
[tense music continues playing]
[indistinct chatter]
[Edda] Okay? You okay?
We're gonna make it. We're gonna make it.
- [bell ringing]
- [bailiff speaking Italian]
[Carlo] Stand up. Please stand up. Yeah.
[Amanda] At this point
some clarification may be necessary.
Because as we will see,
an Italian murder trial
is quite unique.
- [quirky accordion music playing]
- For starters, up here on the dais,
there are at least two judges
head and attendant.
Not sure what his sidekick does.
Then, there are the six lay judges,
aka the jury members.
These are regular people, volunteers,
who, unlike in high-profile
American trials
[reporter] Knox [speaking Italian]
[Amanda] are not sequestered during
the trial, and watch the same news
- as everybody else.
- [kettle whistling]
The most important difference though,
is that the criminal trial
against me would take place
with a civil trial folded inside of it.
[lawyers whispering in Italian]
[Amanda] Which meant my lawyers
would be facing off
against the prosecution
who hoped to put Raffaele and me
in prison for murder,
simultaneously facing off
with Patrick's lawyers,
the Kercher family's lawyers,
and the lawyer for the owner
of Via Della Pergola 7
[nasal spray hissing]
all of whom were seeking
financial compensation for their losses.
Oh, and one other thing.
Remember those statements I made
while being psychologically tortured
without the presence of a lawyer,
saying I was at the house
that night and
It it was Patrick!
The Supreme Court already found
that her statements
during those interrogations
are inadmissible.
But it is admissible for the charge of
criminal slander against Mr. Lumumba.
[Amanda] Stop. What did this mean?
It meant the jury who was hearing the
murder and slander cases simultaneously,
was expected to hear that I confessed
to involvement in Meredith's murder
with one ear
- but not the other.
- [ear popping]
Maybe if I had understood all this
when it was happening,
I would have had a better sense
of what we were up against.
And maybe I would have realized
that this was terrible advice.
[whispering] Just be yourself.
[soft music playing]
- [quiet chattering]
- [person clears throat]
Let's start with your first impressions
of the defendants.
Since you were the first officer
on the scene.
Proceed.
Knox and Sollecito acted
strange from the beginning.
They were protecting the story of
the so-called break-in.
The kissing and lap-sitting.
And the cartwheels in the Questura.
On the night she gave her statement?
We were kind to her.
Was she ever deprived of her needs?
Treated harshly?
No. Look, a police investigation is
hard work.
Long hours.
I'm sure she was tired at times.
So were we.
But she was not even considered
a suspect until
she confessed to bringing Lumumba
back to her house
This is a witness discussing
the statement
Your Honor! Talk of this statement
in the criminal proceeding for murder
is not allowed!
Your Honor, if you don't intervene,
what's the point?
Presiding Judge, please, these
constant disruptions must cease.
The witness will be allowed to answer
without interruptions.
[lawyers whispering in Italian]
The defendant has claimed,
in other forums
that she was struck, physically,
during her questioning.
Is that true?
No.
In short, Presiding Judge, the Perugia
Police Headquarters is not Guantanamo.
[people laughing]
Break for recess, one hour.
[buzzer blaring]
[guards speaking Italian]
[lock clicking]
Raffaele?
[Raffaele Sollecito] Hey, I'm here.
[softly crying]
[Amanda] Why is this happening to us?
It doesn't make any sense.
Why do the police hate us so much?
[Raffaele] Because they are assholes.
[guard shushing]
Amanda, the night that they separated us,
they were so so hard with me,
and I was so s-scared,
- and terrified, and confused.
- I know.
- And I'm supposed to taking care of you.
- Raffaele, I know. I know.
Remember that day I got on the phone
with your father and promised
to take care of you?
I didn't.
- You did
- No I didn't.
I'm sorry.
I am sorry too.
[Raffaele crying]
[gentle music playing]
But
We're here now.
Together.
What I mean to say is
I am here for you now.
I'm here too.
[Amanda] I'm right here.
Mr. Lumumba.
What consequences did you face
after Amanda
this "Luciferina."
implicated you as the murderer?
- Your Honor, the name-calling!
- This cannot be allowed!
Dottor Pacelli, this
is not proper, please.
Mr. Lumumba, please continue.
I've done nothing wrong
in the eyes of the law.
And then out of the blue, I'm accused of
raping someone, murdering someone.
They take me from my home.
I'm in isolation for three days,
I can't speak to anyone.
I can't take a shower
then held in prison for 11 more days.
I thought about my father,
who was in politics.
When I was nine years old, he was taken.
And to this day there is no news
of his whereabouts
I couldn't stop thinking about how this
same thing would happen to my son.
At the time of your arrest,
were you managing the pub?
Yes.
Did you try to reopen the pub
after your release?
Yes yes, I tried. But, it all collapsed.
The bar was sequestered for three months.
I had to pay everything
that hadn't been paid.
But I had nothing. No savings.
[solemn music playing]
Then there is the prejudice.
If there are so many bars
why should I go to the bar of someone
who has been investigated for murder?
I was a business owner.
I made something.
And now it is gone.
[people murmuring]
Thank you, Mr. Lumumba.
Miss Purton, were you and Meredith close?
Were you and Meredith close?
Is your translator device working?
No, it's okay, it's it's just
a bit awkward, sorry, um
Was I close with Meredith?
Very.
Yeah, for the three months
that I knew her,
we were quite close, yeah.
What did you know about the relationship
between Meredith and Ms. Knox?
I would say it was good,
but there were things
that bothered Meredith.
Such as?
She didn't clean the toilet with the
brush after she did a number two.
[people laughing and murmuring]
Why does it matter?
[whispering] Why does it matter?
Were there any other situations
that created tension between them?
Amanda was loud to my taste,
and she was strange.
She wasn't like Meredith at all.
And in the Questura,
our best friend had just died,
and Amanda, she was unfeeling.
Unfeeling.
[Sophie Purton] Yeah, rather cool.
And she she was cold.
[tense music playing]
Your Honor, if I may
Here, I have your
depositions, Ms. Purton,
from November 2nd, 3rd and 5th.
These sentiments against Amanda
were not expressed
until after she was accused and detained.
- What is this? Your Honor, please.
- Sit down, Dottor Dalla Vedova.
So, is it possible that when learning
about Amanda on the news,
about this horrible act
that she was accused of,
that you looked back at things
with a different lens
- This is ridiculous!
- Be seated, counselor!
what was a traumatized
reaction from her,
was to you, through a tainted view,
suddenly "cool and unfeeling"?
No, it rubbed me wrong then,
and it rubs me wrong now.
May I please regain my witness?
Please continue, Miss Purton.
Okay, where were we.
Can you remember any other sources of
conflict between Meredith and Knox?
Amanda was quite open about her sex life.
A very open sex life.
Um, and she also left a clear
plastic beauty case out
in the bathroom that they shared
with a pink vibrator and condoms in it.
Just left it out for all to see.
Perhaps Meredith found that
aggressive or taunting.
It made her uncomfortable.
[Amanda]
Another unique feature of Italian court,
spontaneous declarations by the accused.
[whispering] I'd I'd like to speak.
[whispering] Are you sure?
It's going to be the first time
they gonna hear from you.
Uh
My client wishes to address the court.
[people murmuring]
Please, Ms. Knox.
Hello, Your Honor.
Wow. Um
I wanted to make
a very brief clarification
on this issue of the beauty case,
which should still be in the
bathroom at my home.
There is this vibrator I had.
It was a joke.
It was a gift from a friend of mine
before I arrived in Italy,
it's a small pink rabbit
of this size
About this size?
[laughter]
About 10 centimeters.
For the record, you see
So that's how it is.
[Carlo sighs]
I also wanted to say that
I'm innocent.
[solemn music playing]
And that I trust that everything
will come out.
Everything will work out.
Thank you.
[people murmuring]
Friends close to Meredith
lined up to testify
to Amanda Knox's cold-hearted demeanor.
Meredith's closest friend
asserting that she and Foxy Knoxy
were in conflict over personal matters,
the crass American
refusing to clean her own feces
in the bathroom they shared.
"Meredith was made deeply
uncomfortable by Knox's promiscuity."
No, change that to, "Foxy Knoxy brazenly
flaunted condoms and sex toys"
[Manuela Comodi speaking Italian]
It's going better than expected.
Her lack of character is clear,
and her confession is public knowledge.
But their attempt to cover the crime
must be unquestionable.
[church bell ringing]
[tense music playing]
- [Laura yelling and laughing]
- [Filomena gasps]
Fuck you!
- Laura, you scared me!
- I'm sorry!
Yeah, right, you're sorry.
Why didn't you wait for me?
I told you you don't have
to walk home from work alone.
It was getting dark.
What took you so long?
I got caught up.
Listen
I heard the British girls said
awful things about Amanda.
They talked about her vibrator.
Fucking gross. All of it.
Even the police went after her.
[distant scooter revving]
Apparently she did gymnastics
at the Questura.
Backbends, cartwheels
A cartwheel?
[scoffs]
Why the fuck was she thinking
about cartwheels?!
See, I always knew she was
a fucking psychopath.
No you didn't Filo. You liked her.
- Did I?!
- Yes!
Of course you didn't like everything
about her but
you liked her, she made you laugh.
We had dinner with her two days
after the murder.
You even hugged her.
We talked about us living with her again.
[sighs]
I don't remember that.
Why?
I don't remember that.
I don't know Laura,
I don't know what to think.
[footsteps receding]
Those British girls weren't
my closest friends fine.
They think I'm loud? Whatever.
But what they said about how
Meredith felt about me?
[Amanda sighs]
Amanda, listen to me.
They do not see you.
They see something they fear in you.
How do I make them see that
that is not who I am?
[chuckles]
Sadly, my seminary's marketing
classes were less than stellar.
[Amanda softly chuckles]
Show them your heart!
Huh?
- [reporters shouting]
- [cameras clicking]
[upbeat music playing]
[reporters continue shouting]
[reporters shouting "Amanda!"]
[upbeat music continues playing]
Hey, you fucking psychopath!
[cameras clicking]
Psychopath, this way!
[dramatic tense music playing]
It's disgraceful. Only a monster
could do something like that.
Wearing that t-shirt and all of that,
it's just really embarrassing.
She mocks our city.
She mocks our country, and she mocks
the pain of that poor family.
What about that cold sore?
I mean, she's obviously
They're calling her a puttana
here in Italy, you know what I mean?
[on TV]
Like, where'd you think she got that?
[interviewees speaking Italian]
[Carlo] We are lawyers, we are
not media strategists or PR people.
She told me that you guys
had told her to be herself.
A weirdo like Amanda,
could you be any dumber?
[Edda] Geez, Chris, come on.
- What did he say?
- That we're dumb.
I will not be insulted in my own office.
I have better things to do.
- Did I just hurt his feelings?
- Is is no one telling Amanda
how to behave in court?
No? What What to
wear, what not to say?
They are the parents.
We did not think to instruct her
on those things.
But also, we have never
experienced such a level
of media interest, or sensationalism,
or or vicious public opinion
against a client.
- Never. Never.
- [Curt scoffing]
I don't know Uh, personally,
I don't know a lawyer
who has, in all of Italy
No, you said that we should let them in.
We thought it was the best thing
to do at that time.
[Deanna] She's never gonna see it.
The way you all want her to see things?
The way the world sees things?
She's not going to, she's stubborn.
Sunshine and rainbows
when it's all a pile of shit.
How do you think
she's getting through this?
[soft music playing]
[Edda sighs]
[softly] Oh shit.
[people chattering]
[tense music playing]
Is she she a witness against me?
[whispering]
Yes. It's normal. It's normal.
No. That's my friend. That's my
I know. I know.
Miss Romanelli?
[tense music playing]
- Miss Romanelli? Are you well?
- [music stops abruptly]
Yes. Yes.
I'll ask again.
Were Ms. Knox's personal habits
an issue for the household?
I mean, yes.
She did not always do her fair share.
Laura and I did most of the cleaning.
Were you aware Ms. Knox used hashish?
Yes, I knew.
And Raffaele as well, yes?
Would you consider them heavy drug users?
I would not say they were addicts
Did you partake with them?
The truth?
I sinned once.
[whispering] This is ridiculous.
Do you know who supplied drugs
to Ms. Knox?
Rudy Guede, perhaps?
Permit me, Your Honor.
A connection between
Amanda and Mr. Guede
has never been established.
Dr. Mignini, move on.
We were saying that you
- felt strange about Ms. Knox.
- It's okay.
- But she's my friend.
- I know.
Yes. Yes.
I did feel strange about her.
Especially after the murder.
She had asked me and Laura to be
her roommates again,
to find a new place together
after it happened.
And I said, "Amanda, we'll see.
I don't know."
I didn't want to.
It didn't feel right.
And regarding the state of your old home.
Via Della Pergola 7.
When you left the villa,
before the murder
did you close the shutters
to your bedroom?
Yes.
No, wait, I can't remember.
What did you think about the
break-in from the beginning?
You said, "Nothing was taken
from your room."
- "Your gold earrings still there"
- That's correct.
So
No one actually broke in the window
from the outside.
So the murderer did not come that way.
So please, when you left
did you close them?
- You liked her.
- Did I?!
[overlapping chatter]
I'll repeat.
When you left,
on the night of the murder
were these shutters closed?
Foxy Knoxy
An American witch.
[Laura yelling and laughing]
Closed. I closed them.
Then the break-in was staged.
Thank you.
[people murmuring]
The window to your room.
What was the condition of this
window before the break-in?
Your Honor, the validity of the
break-in has not been established.
Alleged break-in.
[Filomena sniffles]
It was old.
And when it was latched,
did it stay latched?
No, it wasn't secure.
Ah, it wasn't secure.
So even if you closed them,
is it possible that
in our windy November night
the shutters opened on their own?
Leaving the window more exposed and
easier to smash, say, with a rock?
I'm sorry, what question is this?
I'm not a detective.
I only know what I saw.
And the shiver that ran through me.
[people murmuring]
Your Honor, my client would like
to address the Court.
[Judge Massei] Prego, Signorina Knox.
Grazie, Signor Presidente.
[people quietly murmuring]
I just wanted to say that
hearing in these days
all this testimony
I am really and sincerely sorry
to hear some exaggeration
for example,
these things about cleaning.
This was extremely exaggerated.
Yes, I spoke with the girls,
but it was never a conflict.
I always had good relationships
with these people.
[solemn music playing]
[sniffles]
Um
This had to be said,
because I'm really miserable.
I'm sorry because
it wasn't that way.
[buzzer blaring]
I thought I thought Deanna was coming.
[Edda] I told her to, uh
I just told her to wait in the car.
I wanted to ask you something alone.
[prisoners chattering in distance]
Look, I know this
isn't really your thing.
Okay? But I really
I mean, we we need to change
how people see you.
- If you
- I'm I'm an atheist, Mom.
That would So that would be a lie.
You don't think
they'd tear me apart for that?
[solemn music continues]
I'm I'm not that.
I'm not I'm not any of the things
that they're saying.
I don't know I don't know how to be.
I don't know what you want
What do What do you want me to be?
What do you want me to do?
- Honey, I'm
- My own friend got up there
in front of everybody,
and if she can think
that I can do that, then what
what hope do I have?
[Amanda crying]
- [cameras clicking]
- [reporters chattering]
- I just want to tell her story, you know?
- [Edda] Hey!
Get away from her, you piece of shit!
What, destroying one of my girls
isn't enough?!
Huh?
You haven't made enough
fuckin' money off my flesh?
[reporters continue chattering]
Ma'am, your daughter
is on trial for murder.
It's my job to tell the stories
that people are interested in.
No. No, you decide.
You decide what people are interested in
and you feed it to 'em.
Pretty girls, and sex, and death.
What about the guy
who actually killed Meredith?
Why the fuck aren't you
talking about him?!
[door slams shut]
[Amanda]
Rudy Guede had a history of burglary.
Only his DNA was on Meredith
and in that room.
How could people
not be open to the possibility
that he did all of it alone?
[glass breaking]
[dogs barking]
[dramatic, tense music playing]
[glass crunching]
[items rustling]
[drawers rattling]
[distant dogs barking]
[sighs]
[chess piece scraping]
[soft banging]
[shutters creaking and banging]
[dramatic, tense music continues]
[shutter banging]
[shutter banging]
[breathing heavily]
[toilet water splashing]
[keys jingling]
- [door lock clicking]
- [Rudy gasping]
[switch clicking]
[pants zippering, belt rattling]
[footsteps approaching]
- [door creaking]
- [switch clicking]
[dramatic music intensifying]
[music stops]
[water running]
[sighs]
[tense music playing]
[panting]
[gate banging]
[tense music continues playing]
[breathing heavily]
[echoing breaths]
[phones thudding]
[soft, tense music playing]
[music swells]
[music fades out]
- [typewriter clacking]
- [bell dings]
[rooster crowing]
[fanfare playing]
[dramatic music playing]
Is that supposed to
be the point of entry?
Is Spiderman a suspect?
Valuable items left behind.
No forced entry at the door.
This break-in has been staged.
What's that?
A vibrator.
Are these cell phones yours?
These are Meredith's.
One's her British phone
and the second is for local calls.
The British girls don't like Amanda
at all.
I hope she didn't suffer.
Of course she suffered.
They slit her throat.
The hair found on Meredith's floor
belongs to a black man.
Stop lying!!
It it was Patrick!
- [banging on door]
- [shouting in Italian]
So, then what?
You You said You said Patrick?
Yes, and they made me, like,
imagine I was seeing him.
I just interviewed four witnesses
swearing to his alibi.
[lawyer] You are going to have
to stay in Capanne.
Wait what? What, for how long?
- Up to a year.
- A year?
[dramatic music playing]
Actually, there was an African guy
who played basketball with us.
What's his name?
He goes by
"The Baron."
The bloody fingerprints in Meredith's
room don't match Knox
Sollecito or Lumumba.
They belong to someone else.
[cutting and scraping sounds]
[kitchen items rattling]
[tense music playing]
[knives clattering]
[echoing blade slicing]
[chair rolling]
[metal clinging]
[tense music continues playing]
[metal cash box clanging]
[plastic blinds rattling]
Why is the door open?
Is anyone in there?
[children chattering in distance]
Who are you?
Sorry, yeah. Just needed
somewhere to crash.
I feel safe at schools.
Stop. Stop. Stop.
- I was just gonna head out.
- No.
- I'm going to have to call the police.
- No, don't.
Mama, mama!
[gasping breaths]
[children laughing and squealing
in distance]
[line ringing]
[officer] [on phone] Polizia.
There's been a break-in at the nursery.
Please come quickly!
[officer on phone speaking Italian]
My son is here with me.
[officer on phone speaking Italian]
Yes, he has a knife.
[officer on phone
continues speaking Italian]
[tense music playing]
[Amanda Knox] Story is a powerful thing.
[reporters chattering]
The shape of a story makes sense to us.
The path from the familiar
to the unexpected.
- [reporters shouting]
- [reporter] Mr. Knox! Mr. Knox!
[Amanda] The twists we know are coming,
even if we can't predict them.
The end, good or bad,
justified by all that came before.
Mr. Knox, where exactly
did your daughter learn to kill?
Did you know Amanda
was seen thong shopping
as Meredith's body was going cold?
[Amanda] The problem is that reality,
as small, predictable,
and painful as it can be,
often doesn't hold the same allure.
I am here to support
my daughter Amanda
- [cameras clicking]
- who is innocent.
Just like Meredith Kercher's family,
all I want is for justice to be done
and to bring Amanda back home
where she belongs.
Thank you very much.
[distant reporters shouting]
[Edda Mellas] He's just encouraging them.
[scoffs] What'd he do?
Made eye contact, for one.
You coming?
[knocking at door]
Welcome to Italy.
Yeah. I guess so.
- This is it, huh?
- [Chris Mellas] Hey, Curt.
- Yeah.
- [Curt Knox] How you doing, Chris?
Hm. Thought your handshake
would be firmer.
- Chris.
- [chuckles] I'm just messin' with ya.
[Edda clears throat]
All these years, I think
this is our first actual handshake.
Is there a place where I can put
- my evening bags?
- Yeah. Yeah.
- Anywhere, uh
- [Curt] Yeah?
[Edda] Chris is headed home
tomorrow for work, so
Could use a cocktail right now.
Uh, beer in the fridge.
- Yeah, he won't.
- Wine on the rack.
- [Curt] I, uh
- If it doesn't come from a blender
[Curt] I only do "girly drinks."
According to my daughters, that is.
- [bag unzipping]
- You know, I'd rather you not do that,
talk to those assholes out there.
I think that we actually
have to, don't we?
I mean, I don't know if you've noticed,
but they're saying
- some pretty bad stuff about our kid.
- I I noticed.
- I talked to a PR firm.
- PR firm?
- What for?
- Yep, and they said the whole thing
Why do we need that? She's got lawyers.
We have to tell tell the world
that she is not some kind of monster.
That she's got a family that loves her
and is gonna be here for her.
Yeah, we are here for her.
We have been here for her.
We have to be her voice to the outside.
If that doesn't happen,
then all they're gonna hear
is those assholes out there.
Yeah, well, they are not
reasonable people.
Then, we need to use them to reach
- the reasonable people!
- Oh, well, I'm sorry if I've been too busy
caring for my traumatized daughter
to give a shit.
[soft tense music playing]
So, how is she?
You know Amanda.
Sunny, despite everything.
Hella bored, is what she is.
- Tore through every book I brought her.
- Well, I'm glad she has books,
but does she have everything she needs?
Does she have food?
- Does she have clothes?
- [Chris] Why?
You thinkin' of smuggling in
some Hamburger Helper?
Holy crap. Guys, look, look.
[reporter] [on TV]
a new assailant in the murder
of British student Meredith Kercher.
And while details are still emerging,
police say that evidence
places Rudy Guede
firmly at the scene of the crime.
- The new evidence
- Th-this is good, right?
Th this is good.
This is this is good for Amanda.
[reporter] believed to have fled Italy
shortly after Kercher's death
on November 1st.
- [buzzer blaring]
- [lock clicking]
[PA announcement in Italian]
- There she is. Ask her, ask her.
- I will. Calm down.
Amanda, do you know a man
named Rudy Guede?
Mm, Ru no.
Why? Who is that?
Black, tall, likely a drug dealer.
Nickname, "The Baron."
Uh
No, I don't. W-Why? What's going on?
[Luciano chuckles]
His prints and DNA
are all over the murder scene.
They found the killer?
Oh, my God!
Wait, am I am I free?
- Well, he's not in custody yet, so
- Not yet.
They'll find him. They'll get him.
This is wonderful, Amanda.
It's fantastic, uh [speaking Italian]
- News. News.
- News. It's fantastic news.
- Eh?
- It's fantastic news.
The police just need to find him.
[phone ringing]
Hey Rudy. Baron
You there?
Yeah.
Where are you?
I left Italy.
Not safe for me there.
Yeah man, I'm worried about you.
How can I help? Do you need money?
Yeah.
I'm
- Yeah, that would help.
- Of course.
We're friends, whatever I can do.
Where do I send it?
[train clattering]
It's not true, what they're saying.
Do you know what happened?
The funny thing is that
I tried to help her.
It happened while I was in the
bathroom having a shit.
So you were there?
Who was with you? Was it Patrick?
No, it wasn't Patrick.
I tried to intervene. I did all I could.
But
I couldn't stop it.
He's lying.
Let me help you fix it.
I'll Western Union you cash.
Just tell me where to send it.
[dramatic tense music playing]
I'm in Germany. Düsseldorf.
And listen
They got it all wrong.
Amanda wasn't there.
She doesn't have anything to do with it.
[dramatic music intensifying]
He claims Knox wasn't there.
I heard.
Ginevra, what do we have?
Guede's DNA was found on the
pillowcase, toilet paper, glass
on the sweater, bra
- and inside the body of Meredith.
- Basically, we're fucked.
I don't see how this changes a thing.
We always knew there were
multiple assailants.
Sollecito, Lumumba, Knox. Now, Guede.
Why would he say the
others weren't there?
He's protecting them.
Like Lumumba's friends were
with his sham alibi.
Valentina, Lumumba's DNA is
nowhere near the scene.
Ginevra, did she or did she not name
Patrick Lumumba to your face?
- She did.
- Okay.
The downstairs boys
talked of this "Baron"
in their depositions and
you didn't find him
Because he fled the country!
Which puts egg on our face!
Enough! Girls, please.
Let's go over what we have.
Guede's DNA.
Knox's confession. And don't
fucking call me a girl ever again.
We know the break-in was staged.
Knox's DNA is on the knife
Sollecito's knife.
Knox's statement, though.
Why would she name Patrick Lumumba?
Why did she fabricate this story?
Maybe he wasn't there.
I want this Baron back in Italy, now.
[train station PA
announcement in Italian]
[tense music playing]
[people chattering in Italian]
[Curt] [on phone]
It seems like this guy is on the run.
So, we gotta hope it's just
a matter of time till they nab him.
[Edda] [on phone] Then we're on
the first friggin' flight outta here.
God, I have this weird feeling
like maybe maybe I do know him.
[Edda] The murderer?
[tense music continues playing]
[indistinct radio chatter]
[Amanda] I I know,
just the more I look at his face,
he might have played basketball
with the guys downstairs?
I I never knew his name, but
[Edda] God, I hate thinking
what could've happened to you.
I hate all this shit.
[Curt] Well, soon they're gonna
catch him, and this will all be over.
[Amanda] I love you guys.
[tense music continues playing]
- [child wailing]
- Do the elephant with me.
[imitating elephant noises]
[buzzer blaring]
[Amanda trumpeting]
[children chattering]
[Amanda]
Children born to my fellow prisoners
serving time with their moms
until they were weaned.
Who's this?
This is Mena.
Ciao!
- [Gregora speaking indistinctly]
- Bella Mena!
[Amanda narrating]
Their innocence was so obvious.
Soon, mine would be, too.
Soon, I would be free.
- [door opens]
- [VC Banti] Kuh-nox!
[VC Banti speaking Italian]
Ciao, Mena.
[Gregora speaking Italian]
- [cameras clicking]
- [reporters shouting]
- [reporter 1] Patrick!
- [shouting continues]
[reporter 2] Patrick, Patrick, Patrick!
Is Amanda being released?
[reporter 3] Is Patrick gonna make
a statement now?
A grave error has been made.
And today it will be rectified.
My client, Patrick Lumumba
is categorically innocent of
the crimes he was accused of.
- No shit. I cannot
- Just just shush.
My hope is that he and his family
be welcomed back into the community
with the grace they deserve.
- As we speak
- Finally! Now me.
the real perpetrators of this horrific
crime are on their way toward justice.
Patrick.
[cameras clicking]
I want to thank my
friends, and my family.
Most especially my wife and son, who
stood by my side throughout this ordeal.
They never doubted that the man
they knew is the man I am.
[camera clicking]
[camera clicking]
My only hope is that justice will
be done, in poor Meredith's name.
- [reporters shouting]
- [cameras clicking]
And lastly, I want to thank
those who saw the truth
and acted in good conscience
to ensure my release.
[reporter] [on TV] If Patrick is innocent,
what happens next for this investigation?
[Edda exhales sharply]
- Niente.
- Nothing as far as I know.
What I do know is
[Edda] No.
Patrick was arrested as a result
of Amanda Knox's willful deceit.
[Raffaele scoffs]
With Rudy Guede now in custody,
a mistake has been corrected.
- No, no, no.
- And I have every confidence the
- real murderers of Meredith Kercher
- Fuck.
will be punished to the fullest
extent of the law.
All of them.
[suspenseful music playing]
[distorted music playing]
- [rock music continues playing]
- [people chattering]
Hey Baron!
Pour me one too, yeah?
I got you.
Yo, did you just leave a shit in here?
C'mon, man
My fault, my fault.
That rich family didn't
teach you fuck all, huh?
They would have if they
didn't kick me out.
- [laughing]
- [knocking at door]
- [chuckling] Hello.
- Ciao!
- [all] Ciao!
- Can we come in?
Were we loud? Sorry.
No, no. No, we, uh
[snapping fingers] smelled you were home.
[group] Ahh.
[laughing] Um
We were thinking maybe you had extra?
- Sì.
- [laughing]
Laura had a hard day
[Giacomo and Meredith speaking Italian]
Who is that?
Her name is Amanda.
She lives upstairs.
Her Italian is not good though
or she would know
I'm the most hilarious.
[group laughing]
Ciao.
[loud rock music continues
playing on stereo]
Ciao.
[people chattering and laughing]
- Ciao.
- [clicks tongue] Ciao.
You were born in December.
All beautiful girls are born in December.
Sorry
I don't no capito.
[Meredith Kercher] I will.
She'll be very grateful.
- [Amanda chuckles]
- [item clatters]
- Ohh. Sorry.
- You got it?
- Thank you.
- Cool.
- Good night. See ya.
- [group] Ciao.
Ciao, ciao, grazie!
Grazie, grazie!
[rock music playing on stereo]
[sighs]
They live upstairs?
[group speaking Italian]
- Like right upstairs?
- Yes, right upstairs.
Guys, I'm going to bring them back.
[party goer] Boo!
Sit down, sit down.
- Giacomo has tapped the Brit already.
- Good boy, Giacomo.
- I can do the other one then.
- You couldn't get it up anyway.
Fuck off.
- "Were you born on a Sunday?"
- I'm going hit you with this ball.
[laughter]
["1234" by Feist playing]
Old teenage hopes
are right at your door ♪
Left you with nothing ♪
But they want some more ♪
Oh, oh-oh, you're changing your heart ♪
[mimicking rooster crowing]
[excited chattering]
See, Filo? The plan is working.
What plan?
She said that if we take you two in,
we'll never pay for weed again.
- [smacking leg]
- [Amanda] Oh!
I didn't get all of that,
but I feel like we're being used?
We do it for the wine and the pasta.
- Filo. Filo!
- Wine and the pasta.
- [chanting] Wine and the pasta.
- [overlapping chatter]
[laughter]
One, two, three, four ♪
[Amanda] Mm!
Amanda, it's not ready!
[Amanda laughing]
Bony American.
[group chattering in Italian]
Please give me food.
So hungry.
[group continues chattering in Italian]
[music continues playing faintly]
[distant dog barking]
- [tense music playing]
- [shutters banging]
[shutters creaking and banging]
[tense music continues]
[shutter banging]
[Amanda] Though the prosecution cast me,
Raffaele, and Rudy as co-conspirators
in Meredith's murder,
Rudy admitted to only partial guilt,
opted for a speedy trial,
was tried before we were, and separately.
You are judged guilty
of murder aggravated
by sexual assault of
Meredith Susanna Kercher.
[Amanda] With his fast-track trial,
he got a lighter sentence
and was removed from the public eye.
No audience to review him,
no media to ravage him,
and the prosecution could then
focus on their real targets:
me and Raffaele.
Awaiting a trial where Rudy Guede
would not be so much as cross-examined,
Raffaele and I rotted in jail
for almost a year
while our defense teams
did what they could to prepare.
[Curt] "Whore," "harlot," "slut."
Particularly colorful work
from this fuck-face Mark Fontana.
I understand it's hard to see this,
but it's it's nothing, it's noise.
These are Uh, no, it's not nothing.
It's not noise.
These are names that they're calling
our daughter, and that's just the names.
We haven't even gotten
to the theories yet.
- Listen to this
- Mr. Knox, Mrs. Mellas
"Mignini says Kercher was killed
in a sect-like ritual
"when the three suspects
plotted a drug-fueled orgy
- "inspired by Halloween
- [Edda sighs]
Marilyn Manson, and Japanese comics."
- Are you fucking kidding me?
- It's fantasy. It is
Why are we even here?! Huh?!
I'm Rudy Guede's DNA
- was all over that poor girl.
- His blood.
- His fingerprints.
- It was all over the goddamn room!
He's got a history of burglary, drug use,
aggression towards women.
Why are they still
going after our daughter?
Well, because she named herself
- and and Patrick.
- Under duress.
- She retracted an hour later.
- [overlapping shouting]
You need to tell them what we're doing.
Luciano, I'm trying.
Look, the theories are far-fetched.
The story is fantastical,
and the press have been taking them
from the prosecution and feeding them
to the public,
which is why we need to
We are inviting them in.
To where?
- To court?
- [Carlo Dalla Vedova] Yes.
What's the matter?
[Edda] Are you kidding me?
Why would you do that?
They're upset the media will be
present at trial.
I understand your concern,
but it's been it's been over a year.
Tell them that it will be better
for them to see her in a safe space.
It's been over a year,
one year, one year,
and the press have yet to interact
with Amanda face-to-face.
Let them see that innocent face.
The police entrapped her
in that interrogation
and they intentionally did not record it
because they knew it would look
very bad for them.
We want to try this in open court
so that can't happen again.
We will fight with facts.
[Luciano Ghirga] Ah.
And it's a fight we can win.
But the public must bear witness.
[car turning off]
You took my spot.
So?
[car door closes]
What do you think? Year in prison,
bet you 5 Euros Foxy Knoxy got fat.
[both chuckle]
If she got fat we could
probably all go home.
- [church bell tolling]
- [people chattering]
[tense music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
[lock clicking]
[guard speaking Italian]
[tense music continues playing]
[engine idling]
[doors thudding shut]
[guards speaking Italian]
- [engine rumbling]
- [siren wailing]
[van rattling]
[tense music continues playing]
- [crowd clamoring]
- [cameras clicking]
[clamoring continues]
[onlooker shrieks]
[overlapping shouting]
- [cameras continue clicking]
- [crowd clamoring]
- Amanda! Amanda, we're here!
- Amanda!
[overlapping shouting continues]
- [Deanna Knox] We're here!
- [Amanda] No wait! No wait!
- Wait, please. Please.
- [Edda] We love you! We love you!
- [tense music continues]
- [clamoring continues]
- [cameras clicking]
- [reporters shouting]
[tense music continues playing]
[indistinct chatter]
[Edda] Okay? You okay?
We're gonna make it. We're gonna make it.
- [bell ringing]
- [bailiff speaking Italian]
[Carlo] Stand up. Please stand up. Yeah.
[Amanda] At this point
some clarification may be necessary.
Because as we will see,
an Italian murder trial
is quite unique.
- [quirky accordion music playing]
- For starters, up here on the dais,
there are at least two judges
head and attendant.
Not sure what his sidekick does.
Then, there are the six lay judges,
aka the jury members.
These are regular people, volunteers,
who, unlike in high-profile
American trials
[reporter] Knox [speaking Italian]
[Amanda] are not sequestered during
the trial, and watch the same news
- as everybody else.
- [kettle whistling]
The most important difference though,
is that the criminal trial
against me would take place
with a civil trial folded inside of it.
[lawyers whispering in Italian]
[Amanda] Which meant my lawyers
would be facing off
against the prosecution
who hoped to put Raffaele and me
in prison for murder,
simultaneously facing off
with Patrick's lawyers,
the Kercher family's lawyers,
and the lawyer for the owner
of Via Della Pergola 7
[nasal spray hissing]
all of whom were seeking
financial compensation for their losses.
Oh, and one other thing.
Remember those statements I made
while being psychologically tortured
without the presence of a lawyer,
saying I was at the house
that night and
It it was Patrick!
The Supreme Court already found
that her statements
during those interrogations
are inadmissible.
But it is admissible for the charge of
criminal slander against Mr. Lumumba.
[Amanda] Stop. What did this mean?
It meant the jury who was hearing the
murder and slander cases simultaneously,
was expected to hear that I confessed
to involvement in Meredith's murder
with one ear
- but not the other.
- [ear popping]
Maybe if I had understood all this
when it was happening,
I would have had a better sense
of what we were up against.
And maybe I would have realized
that this was terrible advice.
[whispering] Just be yourself.
[soft music playing]
- [quiet chattering]
- [person clears throat]
Let's start with your first impressions
of the defendants.
Since you were the first officer
on the scene.
Proceed.
Knox and Sollecito acted
strange from the beginning.
They were protecting the story of
the so-called break-in.
The kissing and lap-sitting.
And the cartwheels in the Questura.
On the night she gave her statement?
We were kind to her.
Was she ever deprived of her needs?
Treated harshly?
No. Look, a police investigation is
hard work.
Long hours.
I'm sure she was tired at times.
So were we.
But she was not even considered
a suspect until
she confessed to bringing Lumumba
back to her house
This is a witness discussing
the statement
Your Honor! Talk of this statement
in the criminal proceeding for murder
is not allowed!
Your Honor, if you don't intervene,
what's the point?
Presiding Judge, please, these
constant disruptions must cease.
The witness will be allowed to answer
without interruptions.
[lawyers whispering in Italian]
The defendant has claimed,
in other forums
that she was struck, physically,
during her questioning.
Is that true?
No.
In short, Presiding Judge, the Perugia
Police Headquarters is not Guantanamo.
[people laughing]
Break for recess, one hour.
[buzzer blaring]
[guards speaking Italian]
[lock clicking]
Raffaele?
[Raffaele Sollecito] Hey, I'm here.
[softly crying]
[Amanda] Why is this happening to us?
It doesn't make any sense.
Why do the police hate us so much?
[Raffaele] Because they are assholes.
[guard shushing]
Amanda, the night that they separated us,
they were so so hard with me,
and I was so s-scared,
- and terrified, and confused.
- I know.
- And I'm supposed to taking care of you.
- Raffaele, I know. I know.
Remember that day I got on the phone
with your father and promised
to take care of you?
I didn't.
- You did
- No I didn't.
I'm sorry.
I am sorry too.
[Raffaele crying]
[gentle music playing]
But
We're here now.
Together.
What I mean to say is
I am here for you now.
I'm here too.
[Amanda] I'm right here.
Mr. Lumumba.
What consequences did you face
after Amanda
this "Luciferina."
implicated you as the murderer?
- Your Honor, the name-calling!
- This cannot be allowed!
Dottor Pacelli, this
is not proper, please.
Mr. Lumumba, please continue.
I've done nothing wrong
in the eyes of the law.
And then out of the blue, I'm accused of
raping someone, murdering someone.
They take me from my home.
I'm in isolation for three days,
I can't speak to anyone.
I can't take a shower
then held in prison for 11 more days.
I thought about my father,
who was in politics.
When I was nine years old, he was taken.
And to this day there is no news
of his whereabouts
I couldn't stop thinking about how this
same thing would happen to my son.
At the time of your arrest,
were you managing the pub?
Yes.
Did you try to reopen the pub
after your release?
Yes yes, I tried. But, it all collapsed.
The bar was sequestered for three months.
I had to pay everything
that hadn't been paid.
But I had nothing. No savings.
[solemn music playing]
Then there is the prejudice.
If there are so many bars
why should I go to the bar of someone
who has been investigated for murder?
I was a business owner.
I made something.
And now it is gone.
[people murmuring]
Thank you, Mr. Lumumba.
Miss Purton, were you and Meredith close?
Were you and Meredith close?
Is your translator device working?
No, it's okay, it's it's just
a bit awkward, sorry, um
Was I close with Meredith?
Very.
Yeah, for the three months
that I knew her,
we were quite close, yeah.
What did you know about the relationship
between Meredith and Ms. Knox?
I would say it was good,
but there were things
that bothered Meredith.
Such as?
She didn't clean the toilet with the
brush after she did a number two.
[people laughing and murmuring]
Why does it matter?
[whispering] Why does it matter?
Were there any other situations
that created tension between them?
Amanda was loud to my taste,
and she was strange.
She wasn't like Meredith at all.
And in the Questura,
our best friend had just died,
and Amanda, she was unfeeling.
Unfeeling.
[Sophie Purton] Yeah, rather cool.
And she she was cold.
[tense music playing]
Your Honor, if I may
Here, I have your
depositions, Ms. Purton,
from November 2nd, 3rd and 5th.
These sentiments against Amanda
were not expressed
until after she was accused and detained.
- What is this? Your Honor, please.
- Sit down, Dottor Dalla Vedova.
So, is it possible that when learning
about Amanda on the news,
about this horrible act
that she was accused of,
that you looked back at things
with a different lens
- This is ridiculous!
- Be seated, counselor!
what was a traumatized
reaction from her,
was to you, through a tainted view,
suddenly "cool and unfeeling"?
No, it rubbed me wrong then,
and it rubs me wrong now.
May I please regain my witness?
Please continue, Miss Purton.
Okay, where were we.
Can you remember any other sources of
conflict between Meredith and Knox?
Amanda was quite open about her sex life.
A very open sex life.
Um, and she also left a clear
plastic beauty case out
in the bathroom that they shared
with a pink vibrator and condoms in it.
Just left it out for all to see.
Perhaps Meredith found that
aggressive or taunting.
It made her uncomfortable.
[Amanda]
Another unique feature of Italian court,
spontaneous declarations by the accused.
[whispering] I'd I'd like to speak.
[whispering] Are you sure?
It's going to be the first time
they gonna hear from you.
Uh
My client wishes to address the court.
[people murmuring]
Please, Ms. Knox.
Hello, Your Honor.
Wow. Um
I wanted to make
a very brief clarification
on this issue of the beauty case,
which should still be in the
bathroom at my home.
There is this vibrator I had.
It was a joke.
It was a gift from a friend of mine
before I arrived in Italy,
it's a small pink rabbit
of this size
About this size?
[laughter]
About 10 centimeters.
For the record, you see
So that's how it is.
[Carlo sighs]
I also wanted to say that
I'm innocent.
[solemn music playing]
And that I trust that everything
will come out.
Everything will work out.
Thank you.
[people murmuring]
Friends close to Meredith
lined up to testify
to Amanda Knox's cold-hearted demeanor.
Meredith's closest friend
asserting that she and Foxy Knoxy
were in conflict over personal matters,
the crass American
refusing to clean her own feces
in the bathroom they shared.
"Meredith was made deeply
uncomfortable by Knox's promiscuity."
No, change that to, "Foxy Knoxy brazenly
flaunted condoms and sex toys"
[Manuela Comodi speaking Italian]
It's going better than expected.
Her lack of character is clear,
and her confession is public knowledge.
But their attempt to cover the crime
must be unquestionable.
[church bell ringing]
[tense music playing]
- [Laura yelling and laughing]
- [Filomena gasps]
Fuck you!
- Laura, you scared me!
- I'm sorry!
Yeah, right, you're sorry.
Why didn't you wait for me?
I told you you don't have
to walk home from work alone.
It was getting dark.
What took you so long?
I got caught up.
Listen
I heard the British girls said
awful things about Amanda.
They talked about her vibrator.
Fucking gross. All of it.
Even the police went after her.
[distant scooter revving]
Apparently she did gymnastics
at the Questura.
Backbends, cartwheels
A cartwheel?
[scoffs]
Why the fuck was she thinking
about cartwheels?!
See, I always knew she was
a fucking psychopath.
No you didn't Filo. You liked her.
- Did I?!
- Yes!
Of course you didn't like everything
about her but
you liked her, she made you laugh.
We had dinner with her two days
after the murder.
You even hugged her.
We talked about us living with her again.
[sighs]
I don't remember that.
Why?
I don't remember that.
I don't know Laura,
I don't know what to think.
[footsteps receding]
Those British girls weren't
my closest friends fine.
They think I'm loud? Whatever.
But what they said about how
Meredith felt about me?
[Amanda sighs]
Amanda, listen to me.
They do not see you.
They see something they fear in you.
How do I make them see that
that is not who I am?
[chuckles]
Sadly, my seminary's marketing
classes were less than stellar.
[Amanda softly chuckles]
Show them your heart!
Huh?
- [reporters shouting]
- [cameras clicking]
[upbeat music playing]
[reporters continue shouting]
[reporters shouting "Amanda!"]
[upbeat music continues playing]
Hey, you fucking psychopath!
[cameras clicking]
Psychopath, this way!
[dramatic tense music playing]
It's disgraceful. Only a monster
could do something like that.
Wearing that t-shirt and all of that,
it's just really embarrassing.
She mocks our city.
She mocks our country, and she mocks
the pain of that poor family.
What about that cold sore?
I mean, she's obviously
They're calling her a puttana
here in Italy, you know what I mean?
[on TV]
Like, where'd you think she got that?
[interviewees speaking Italian]
[Carlo] We are lawyers, we are
not media strategists or PR people.
She told me that you guys
had told her to be herself.
A weirdo like Amanda,
could you be any dumber?
[Edda] Geez, Chris, come on.
- What did he say?
- That we're dumb.
I will not be insulted in my own office.
I have better things to do.
- Did I just hurt his feelings?
- Is is no one telling Amanda
how to behave in court?
No? What What to
wear, what not to say?
They are the parents.
We did not think to instruct her
on those things.
But also, we have never
experienced such a level
of media interest, or sensationalism,
or or vicious public opinion
against a client.
- Never. Never.
- [Curt scoffing]
I don't know Uh, personally,
I don't know a lawyer
who has, in all of Italy
No, you said that we should let them in.
We thought it was the best thing
to do at that time.
[Deanna] She's never gonna see it.
The way you all want her to see things?
The way the world sees things?
She's not going to, she's stubborn.
Sunshine and rainbows
when it's all a pile of shit.
How do you think
she's getting through this?
[soft music playing]
[Edda sighs]
[softly] Oh shit.
[people chattering]
[tense music playing]
Is she she a witness against me?
[whispering]
Yes. It's normal. It's normal.
No. That's my friend. That's my
I know. I know.
Miss Romanelli?
[tense music playing]
- Miss Romanelli? Are you well?
- [music stops abruptly]
Yes. Yes.
I'll ask again.
Were Ms. Knox's personal habits
an issue for the household?
I mean, yes.
She did not always do her fair share.
Laura and I did most of the cleaning.
Were you aware Ms. Knox used hashish?
Yes, I knew.
And Raffaele as well, yes?
Would you consider them heavy drug users?
I would not say they were addicts
Did you partake with them?
The truth?
I sinned once.
[whispering] This is ridiculous.
Do you know who supplied drugs
to Ms. Knox?
Rudy Guede, perhaps?
Permit me, Your Honor.
A connection between
Amanda and Mr. Guede
has never been established.
Dr. Mignini, move on.
We were saying that you
- felt strange about Ms. Knox.
- It's okay.
- But she's my friend.
- I know.
Yes. Yes.
I did feel strange about her.
Especially after the murder.
She had asked me and Laura to be
her roommates again,
to find a new place together
after it happened.
And I said, "Amanda, we'll see.
I don't know."
I didn't want to.
It didn't feel right.
And regarding the state of your old home.
Via Della Pergola 7.
When you left the villa,
before the murder
did you close the shutters
to your bedroom?
Yes.
No, wait, I can't remember.
What did you think about the
break-in from the beginning?
You said, "Nothing was taken
from your room."
- "Your gold earrings still there"
- That's correct.
So
No one actually broke in the window
from the outside.
So the murderer did not come that way.
So please, when you left
did you close them?
- You liked her.
- Did I?!
[overlapping chatter]
I'll repeat.
When you left,
on the night of the murder
were these shutters closed?
Foxy Knoxy
An American witch.
[Laura yelling and laughing]
Closed. I closed them.
Then the break-in was staged.
Thank you.
[people murmuring]
The window to your room.
What was the condition of this
window before the break-in?
Your Honor, the validity of the
break-in has not been established.
Alleged break-in.
[Filomena sniffles]
It was old.
And when it was latched,
did it stay latched?
No, it wasn't secure.
Ah, it wasn't secure.
So even if you closed them,
is it possible that
in our windy November night
the shutters opened on their own?
Leaving the window more exposed and
easier to smash, say, with a rock?
I'm sorry, what question is this?
I'm not a detective.
I only know what I saw.
And the shiver that ran through me.
[people murmuring]
Your Honor, my client would like
to address the Court.
[Judge Massei] Prego, Signorina Knox.
Grazie, Signor Presidente.
[people quietly murmuring]
I just wanted to say that
hearing in these days
all this testimony
I am really and sincerely sorry
to hear some exaggeration
for example,
these things about cleaning.
This was extremely exaggerated.
Yes, I spoke with the girls,
but it was never a conflict.
I always had good relationships
with these people.
[solemn music playing]
[sniffles]
Um
This had to be said,
because I'm really miserable.
I'm sorry because
it wasn't that way.
[buzzer blaring]
I thought I thought Deanna was coming.
[Edda] I told her to, uh
I just told her to wait in the car.
I wanted to ask you something alone.
[prisoners chattering in distance]
Look, I know this
isn't really your thing.
Okay? But I really
I mean, we we need to change
how people see you.
- If you
- I'm I'm an atheist, Mom.
That would So that would be a lie.
You don't think
they'd tear me apart for that?
[solemn music continues]
I'm I'm not that.
I'm not I'm not any of the things
that they're saying.
I don't know I don't know how to be.
I don't know what you want
What do What do you want me to be?
What do you want me to do?
- Honey, I'm
- My own friend got up there
in front of everybody,
and if she can think
that I can do that, then what
what hope do I have?
[Amanda crying]
- [cameras clicking]
- [reporters chattering]
- I just want to tell her story, you know?
- [Edda] Hey!
Get away from her, you piece of shit!
What, destroying one of my girls
isn't enough?!
Huh?
You haven't made enough
fuckin' money off my flesh?
[reporters continue chattering]
Ma'am, your daughter
is on trial for murder.
It's my job to tell the stories
that people are interested in.
No. No, you decide.
You decide what people are interested in
and you feed it to 'em.
Pretty girls, and sex, and death.
What about the guy
who actually killed Meredith?
Why the fuck aren't you
talking about him?!
[door slams shut]
[Amanda]
Rudy Guede had a history of burglary.
Only his DNA was on Meredith
and in that room.
How could people
not be open to the possibility
that he did all of it alone?
[glass breaking]
[dogs barking]
[dramatic, tense music playing]
[glass crunching]
[items rustling]
[drawers rattling]
[distant dogs barking]
[sighs]
[chess piece scraping]
[soft banging]
[shutters creaking and banging]
[dramatic, tense music continues]
[shutter banging]
[shutter banging]
[breathing heavily]
[toilet water splashing]
[keys jingling]
- [door lock clicking]
- [Rudy gasping]
[switch clicking]
[pants zippering, belt rattling]
[footsteps approaching]
- [door creaking]
- [switch clicking]
[dramatic music intensifying]
[music stops]
[water running]
[sighs]
[tense music playing]
[panting]
[gate banging]
[tense music continues playing]
[breathing heavily]
[echoing breaths]
[phones thudding]
[soft, tense music playing]
[music swells]
[music fades out]
- [typewriter clacking]
- [bell dings]
[rooster crowing]
[fanfare playing]